The read
Audiences rate it 45 points higher than critics do. Most of the 352 1970s horror movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.
Ratings
IMDb5.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes14%
Audiences rate it 45 points higher than critics do.
152 audience votes
Key crew
- Mario BavaDirector
- Vincent FotreScreenplay
- Stelvio CiprianiOriginal Music Composer
- Willibald EserScreenplay
- Mario BavaScreenplay
Cast
- Joseph CottenBaron Otto von Kleist / Alfred Becker
- Elke SommerEva Arnold
- Massimo GirottiDr. Karl Hummel
- Antonio CantaforaPeter Kleist
- Umberto RahoInspector
- Luciano PigozziFritz
- Nicoletta ElmiGretchen Hummel
- Dieter TresslerMayor Dortmundt
- Rolf HalwichAuctioner
- Gustavo De NardoDr. Werner Hesse
- Valeria SabelMartha Hummel
- Rada RassimovChristina Hoffmann
